The exhibition "CABA mapping 48
years of urban growth in the slums of Caracas" was presented at the
Art Center Los Galpones de los Chorros between the 24 of November
and the 4th of December 2016. It documents how the slum
urban fabric evolved and is present in the city, in contrast to its
historical absence in conventional cartography. The content is
based on the publication "CABA Cartography of the Caracas slums"
that registers the territorial and demographic growth of informal
settlements in Caracas through a series of maps. The maps register
the area, the number of structures and the population of the
capital city´s slum areas which facilitates reflective and
analytical processes on the urbanization of the habitat where close
to half the city´s population lives and reveals a clear tendency
toward an urban model that is not considered in planning
efforts.

The exhibition includes an aerial
plan of Caracas that is 12 meters wide and shows the location of
all slums in the city. People can walk on it and find their homes,
schools, routes they take and places they visit. It also includes
panels of every municipality in Caracas and their corresponding
slum areas, as well as videos with aerial footage over the informal
settlements of Catia and Petare.

The show´s objective is to make the
city´s slum areas more visible to visitors and allow people to
become familiar with their location and extension, and to encourage
everyone to acknowledge that investing and improving these
territories is vital to achieve their complete participation in the
city and that this should be a priority of an inclusive city
agenda.